Donna Brazile: How the Clinton campaign ran the DNC

[Rookie Yinzer]

Sounds like an interesting read. Hillary ended up on a lot of people who were loyal to her’s sh**t lists after she fumbled the election.

ETA: and this should end the peculiar Hillary 2020 speculation. She is toast. While I still think Bernie was going to lose, this looks horrible especially with a Clinton hack (she lost her job at CNN over Hillary) being the one to tell this story.

[Rookie Yinzer]

For the life of me I still don't understand what is meant by "rigged" primaries. No votes were changed. It just sounds like it was the debate scheduling, superdelegates committing long beforehand (which is irrelevant because Clinton still won by delegates), and a bunch of random talk among DNC staff that never amounted to anything. What else is there? This sketchy fundraising structure using states as pass through entities isn't right but it doesn't have anything to do with Bernie's votes.

This isn't to say the DNC wasn't being shady and untrustworthy, though. I'm just not sure I like the terminology here, because a lot of people seem to level charges on the DNC that describe something that wasn't happening. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people say the DNC actually stole the nomination from Sanders, when it is more like just working against him on the periphery.

All I can say is they really need to clean this mess up by 2020. Just let the candidates run on an even playing field, and stop trying to control everything. At the very least they should understand that they are too incompetent to tilt a primary against their disfavored candidates and get away with it.

At the end of the day when Hillary Clinton is in the center of the scandal you can’t scrub the appearance of corruption off. Any sort of context and nuance that takes longer than 15 seconds to explain is looked at with disdain and as lying. The best the Democrats can do is to move on and work on providing transparent primaries with even playing fields.

[Rookie Yinzer]

This is beyond pathetic coming from Brazile.  Didn't she get fired for leaking debate questions to Hillary?

She’s bitter because at least when CNN fired her she had a cushy position in Hillary’s White House waiting on her. Clearly that didn’t come to fruition.

[Rookie Yinzer]

How is "Undemocratic" to ask people to engage & talk over an election?

Hillary supporters have jobs. They didn't have 12 hours out of the day to sit around defending their vote and being shouted down by Bernie supporters.

[Rookie Yinzer]

How is "Undemocratic" to ask people to engage & talk over an election?

Hillary supporters have jobs. They didn't have 12 hours out of the day to sit around defending their vote and being shouted down by Bernie supporters.

That’s exactly what Republicans love to say. Nice.

I was being facetious.

[Rookie Yinzer]

How is "Undemocratic" to ask people to engage & talk over an election?

Hillary supporters have jobs. They didn't have 12 hours out of the day to sit around defending their vote and being shouted down by Bernie supporters.

Uh, I thought I read somewhere that Sanders' primary voters were often higher income than Hillary's...

The jobs part was an (attempted) joke. The second part of my statement is true. Bernie supporters did yell at Hillary supporters at caucuses. My friend’s mother experienced this in Nevada. His supporters were more passionate, which is great, but he did benefit from the caucus system which is undemocratic. He often left this out when he went on tirades Against the “system”.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Elizabeth Warren’s pandering was for naught.

She can kiss my potential vote goodbye.

[Rookie Yinzer]

She also says she considered replacing the ticket after Hillary fainted on 9/11 with Biden/Booker.

So Hillary had complete control over the DNC but Brazile was going to forcibly remove her off the ticket two months before the election? This woman is bat sh-t.